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Re: Click the Paw

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Post by twohaibei »

zaik wrote: post #62
mg wrote: post #50

Looks like it is only enabled when the interface is English. I do not see it by default here in Germany. But I get the paw when I add &hl=en to the url: https://www.google.com/search?q=cat&hl=en Oh, and it also works when I use the German word for "Cat" which is "Katze": https://www.google.com/search?q=katze

Hm, I don't see it on Firefox for Android.

I got it on Firefox for android. Maybe locale matter as someone suggested.

Re: Click the Paw

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mg wrote: post #50

Looks like it is only enabled when the interface is English. I do not see it by default here in Germany. But I get the paw when I add &hl=en to the url: https://www.google.com/search?q=cat&hl=en Oh, and it also works when I use the German word for "Cat" which is "Katze": https://www.google.com/search?q=katze

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Re: Click the Paw

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Post by phist_mcgee »

imiric wrote: post #64

The easter egg doesn't seem to work on mobile (or maybe from outside the US?), but as someone who hasn't used google.com for quite a while, what's remarkable to me is how much the landing SERP has changed since the simple list-of-links design of the early days. And not in a good way. I have some time, so rant incoming... From top to bottom, here's what I see for "cat": 0. To start, that annoying full-screen cookie co…

Relax.

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Post by thrown_22 »

PradeetPatel wrote: post #25
thrown_22 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people getting fired are the ones who stopped engineers from doing this sort of thing. I remember in university you'd have job adds for google inside under the hood implementation details where only students/hackers would look. Those disappeared as quickly as pointy haired bosses showed up there.

I wonder if those type of ads attracts certain type of engineers, which were desirable during the rapid growth period of the company, only to become liabilities later on when they failed to adapt with the business's everchanging objectives and KPIs. Disclaimer: Not an engineer, but a people manager.

No idea. Google in 2005 used to attract the smart weird people. By 2015 everyone smart and weird I knew there was yelling from the rooftops to not work for them.

Re: Click the Paw

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Post by dwild »

mg wrote: post #50

Looks like it is only enabled when the interface is English. I do not see it by default here in Germany. But I get the paw when I add &hl=en to the url: https://www.google.com/search?q=cat&hl=en Oh, and it also works when I use the German word for "Cat" which is "Katze": https://www.google.com/search?q=katze

I didn't see it and mine is in French, I do see it with "Chat" and "Katze". If I search "Cat" the spot is taken by the company, not the animal, could it be something similar for you? I feel like that's the actual issue.
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